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Amphisbaena gonavensis Gans and Alexander

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Amphisbaena gonavensis Gans and Alexander

Amphisbaena innocens gonavensis Gans and Alexander, 1962: 111. TYPE LOCALITY: ‘‘ Point à Roquettes, Gonave Island, Haiti’ ’. Holotype: YPM 3384. Paratypes: MCZ 25549 (Petite Gonave); YPM 3385–3389; USNM 10168 (Gonave).

DISCUSSION OF FORM: R. Thomas (1965b: 1). See also Cusumano and Powell (1991, diet), Henderson and Schwartz (1984, identification), Henderson et al. (1984, identification), Powell (1992, distribution), Schwartz and Henderson (1991), Schwartz and Thomas (1975, distribution), and Thomas and Thomas (1978, ecology).

RANGE: Gonave and Petite Gonave, Hispaniola.

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Published as part of GANS, CARL, 2005, Checklist And Bibliography Of The Amphisbaenia Of The World, pp. 1-130 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2005 (289) on page 14, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090(2005)289<0001:CABOTA>2.0.CO;2, http://zenodo.org/record/5361528

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Biodiversity

Collection code
MCZ , USNM , YPM
Family
Amphisbaenidae
Genus
Amphisbaena
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
USNM 10168 , YPM 3384 , YPM 3385-3389
Order
Squamata
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Gans and Alexander
Species
gonavensis
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype

References

  • Thomas, R. 1965 b. Two new subspecies of Amphisbaena (Amphisbaenia, Reptilia) from the Barahona Peninsula of Hispaniola. Breviora 215: 1 - 14. [all; Amphisbaena gonavensis hyporissor, A. g. leberi]
  • Powell, R. 1992. Amphisbaena gonavensis. Catalog of American amphibians and reptiles 539: 1 - 3. [Amphisbaena g. gonavensis, A. g. hyporissor, A. g. leberi]
  • Schwartz, A., and R. W. Henderson. 1991. Amphibians and reptiles of the West Indies: descriptions, distributions and natural history. Gainesville: University of Florida Press. [pp. 555 - 564; Amphisbaena caeca, A. caudalis, A.
  • Schwartz, A., and R. Thomas. 1975. A check-list of West Indian amphibians and reptiles. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Spec. Publ. 1975 (1): 1 - 216. [pp. 166 - 169, Amphisbaena bakeri, A. caeca, A. caudalis, A. cubana, A. fenestrata, A. gonavensis, A. innocens, A. manni, A. schmidti, A. xera, Cadea blanoides, C. palirostrata]
  • Thomas, K. R., and R. Thomas. 1978. Locomotor activity responses to photoperiod in four West Indian fossorial squamates of the genera Amphisbaena and Typhlops (Reptilia, Lacertilia). Journal of Herpetology 12 (1): 35 - 41. [Amphisbanea manni, A. gonavensis, ecology]